Talk:Christopher Priest (novelist)

Death of Christopher Priest
Christopher Priest has, sad to say, died. Nina Allan, his partner, confirmed his death yesterday on her website. 87.129.133.75 (talk) 07:12, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Nolan/Prestige
The entry currently says: "Nolan was reportedly[citation needed] so concerned the denouement be kept a surprise that he blocked plans for a lucrative US tie-in edition of the book." This conflates two points: that Christopher Nolan stated in public "Don't read the novel! It spoils everything!", and that the studio refused to allow film imagery to be used on the US tie-in edition. Publication was not in fact blocked. My own related article for The New York Review of SF may be an appropriate cite, but I haven't inserted it for fear of vanity accusations. --DeafMan (talk) 16:16, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

The above is correct, and the article is wrong. I am the Tor Books editor who acquired North American softcover rights to THE PRESTIGE, and we put it out in paperback years before it was made into a movie. When the movie was imminent, we tried repeatedly--with help from the author and his agent--to persuade the studio to give us movie imagery for a tie-in edition, but the studio never came through with it. So we simply sold copies featuring art of our own and a tag line reading "Basis for the major motion picture." Nolan couldn't and didn't "block" this from happening. Indeed, we wound up selling a respectable number of copies during the period of the movie's first release, despite the lack of movie tie-in art. And the book is in print from us to this day. --Pnh (talk) 02:42, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Petra Christian
I understand that Christopher Priest wrote and co-wrote (with Peter Cave) a number of novels under the name Petra Christian, but I'm reluctant to add - since they're not already here it makes me think there must be some reason for that. Peter Cave talked about it in Pulpmania Issue One (2006). According to that interview they co-wrote Hitch-Hiker, The New Drifters, Girls of the Night, Holiday Campers and The Sexploiters, and Priest wrote Hello Sailor and Bed and Bawd alone. Sorry if this is something that's previously been debunked. Rolnikov (talk) 14:01, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

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